Mass Mailer Software Update Request

The preview button does not always look exactly like the email being sent.

Would it be possible to have the preview be sent to an email address?

Thanks!

Peer

Let's take a look at the mass mailer code.  I have worked with it before but will need to hunt for it; will come back when I do.

What is the template name for the mass mailer?  I don't know what template to parse the body of the message through.

I have wasted enough time on it.  The mass mailer that ships with Dolphin is a shitty piece of software to handle a newsletter.

I keep getting:

Fatal error: Call to a member function parseTemplate() on a non-object

You think they would include "send test email to admin".  Basically what you need to do here is to parse the email using the mass mailer template and send it out to the admin email address only using mail().

Maybe someone that understands the mass mailer and the email template system better than I will step in and give the solution.

Geek Girl, I bot some mods from modzz. Let me see what I have.

P.

Geek Girl, 

BTW, you are correct, themass mailer is $hit...

P.

Sorry I am not of much help on this.  I guess I need to study the notify.php script a bit closer.  However, there are some modules in the market for handling newsletters that might offer more options and features; I think one has many more filters in place for controlling who gets a newsletter.  I have Modzz" Auto Mailer module that I am going to use on our site and that could be used for a newsletter as well; all that is needed is to be able to tie into a "Receive Newsletter" field added to the profile edit page in place of that "Receive Site Notifications".  I believe there are true newsletter modules as well; they have to have a way for people to unsubscribe to the newsletter if in the USA since that is required by law (Can Spam Act).

Yes, there are "true newsletter" modules, but not one that integrates into the Dolphin Membership database. At least that I am aware of... :)

I am going to look again today.... :)

Peer

I am using an old mass emailer called Pommo. The one I have is from yeras ago, and it still works so don't know what new products available for this script. One of my next phases in development is to integrate this pommo into dolphin somehow. Or at least be able to access the dolphin database tables and pull in the emails. Since our new launch date is Thursday, I expect to have this completed by then.

I first integrated Pommo into Dolphin 6.X about 5 years ago.. which is also the time they stopped updating Pommo. Unfortunately they never touched it after that. 

I integrated it into Dolphin 7.X about a year ago as an actual module and attached it to a thread here. I think only one person downloaded it though so it could have some bugs for all I know. To make it work with your version of Dolphin just open:

 /modules/mscott/pommo/install/config.php

and change line 18 to your version number.

Professor feel free to pick it apart and use what you need. Pplaut feel free to try it out and see what you think.

 Apart from the Auto Mailer, I have a Newsletter module (not a third party integration) that will be published next week.

Modzz-

Please let me know when this is ready...

Peer

Can someone help i just found out this

I have reviewed your script even further and as I can see for some reason it's database was having multiple entries from your dolphin and your pommo module.

However as I can see the users database table for your pommo script is empty and this is why you are unable to access it.

Unfortunately we do not have a working backup of this database and what we may do is to re-install the module for you. In case this is suitable solution please, upload your module archive to your account so we can proceed with it's re-installation.

Other way to resolve the issue is to contact it's developers and kindly ask them to provide you with an MySQL Query with which we can create new admin user for you directly in your current database.

 Hi Mscott,

Sorry for the long wait for feedback.

The module installed smoothly but there were a few errors accessing it.

1. The magic quote was deprecated.

Has to add the following to modules/mscott/pommo/mailer/bootstrap.php

@set_magic_quotes_runtime(false);
ini_set('magic_quotes_runtime', 0);

2. Had another problem which was the conflict with a Multi Admin module.

Warning: require_once(/adm_check.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/clients/client0/web10/web/inc/admin_design.inc.php on line 27

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/adm_check.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/clients/client0/web10/web/inc/admin_design.inc.php on line 27

When I edit the admin_design.inc.php and comment out "require_once( $dir['root'].$admin_dir .'/adm_check.php' );", the Pommo module will work. (But multi admin won't work)

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks!